Hi all, I have some old SGI computers sitting around that my other half has finally convinced me to part with. They haven't been booted in at least 2 years and they are taking precious room in a two bedroom flat. I think they still operate. Because they are very unusual beasts I am loath to just trash them outright. They would be perfect for computer museum or someone interested in doing kernel/X window hacking. Available is: 1 x SGI O2 (180 Mhz - 64 MB - 2GB hard drive - AIX installation CDs) 1 x SGI Visual Workstation 320 (dual Pentium 3 about 700MB ram) 1 x SGI Visual Workstation that doesn't work and is useful for spare parts. 1 x SGI 1600SW LCD display for the 320 (apparently still highly regarded after all these years - it sold more then units then the 320 it was created for). 1 X Sony 19 inch monitor (supports sync-on-green signal that the O2 puts out). Interested parties would have to organize pick up from the inter south eastern suburbs. The visual workstation is NOT a PC. While it has intel CPUs the chipset is the based on the 02 UMA architecture. It does not have a BIOS, instead it uses ARC firmware. Currently it runs windows 2000 (apparently it was the best ever windows NT 4 workstation that every existed - SGI even implemented a USB stack for the keyboard/mouse; there are no ps2 ports). I have managed to get Linux early 2.2 running on it with a basic frame buffer support. Kernels after about 2.2.4 panic on start up for some reason, I could never figure what change in the kernel source broke it. The O2 is missing a mouse (cat damaged cable) though any ps2 mouse would do. It doesn't have any OS installed on the hard drive. I had accidentally trashed AIX that was on it and then discovered that the CD-ROM was flaky and couldn't read the installation media properly when I did the reinstall. I have never tried to get Linux running on it. Also I think I have a spare 2GB SCSI hard drive for it floating around that fits it. Finally if there are in X windows hackers out there. These computers might be interesting for you. The video hardware is undocumented by SGI but frame buffer drivers do exist for both computers. I have read that someone from NetBSD apparently found a header file containing register listings for the video chip and reverse engineered a driver. Regards, Tim.